Though they may have found my empty rooms, bare walls, and sparse wardrobe quirky, they simply accepted it as who I was.

After a while a rind of white moon and a few sparse stars settled overhead, enough light for him to make out a human form.

The pictures of the man with thinning hair never seemed right, she said.

Like if two guys, for example, come up to each other, and one of them maybe insults him a little bit about his bulging midriff, or his thinning hair.

But in a parallel supercomputer with a sparse, distributed memory, the distinction between memory and processing fades.